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Vaccines: Safety and Efficacy Evaluation
There are only two questions you need to ask about any drug or vaccine. Does it work? Is it safe? Efficacy is commonly measured by a rise in antibody titer. However, the antibody being measured has not always been a good surrogate for level of protection. What one really needs to do is measure the…
Distinguished scientists (including former NIH chief and former UK Health Ministry’s Chief Scientific Officer) also question vaccine safety/ HuffPo
Thanks to Lawrence Solomon, writing for Huffington Post, who explains that media’s approach to those who question vaccine safety defies rational explanation. Highly regarded scientists, whose job it was to review the safety of vaccines, have persistent questions about their safety in large, unscreened populations (as do I). Those who question vaccination programs are kooks…
MULTIPLY UPDATED May 24: This post is a winding story of current events and their linkages to hidden agendas. I am in hospital with a fractured hip and it is hard to write. This is not polished but is full of important information
MY RECENT HISTORY I arrived in Europe May 12 with hopes to attend several conferences, but only got to one. The Scandinavian Freedom / Northern Light conference was wonderful. I made many new friends and encountered so many zoom friends whom I finally met in person. Being in the same room with people you like…
Bye Bye Bill of Rights/ NY Times
Welcome to the 2012 US Homeland. Where’d we mislay that old Constitution? Ours is now the land of extrajudicial killings performed by drones; strip searches for speeding, or for bicycling without an audible bell or having a too-audible muffler; widespread extralegal cell phone surveillance by police, mobile phone companies (for whom it is a new…
Medical societies fight CMS efforts to make CME funding more transparent
On February 9, 2012, I wrote about how Merck manages to evade FDA regulations on advertising by funneling money through third party intermediaries: educational institutions and education/PR companies. These third parties then pay doctors to provide advertising to other professionals in the form of continuing medical education. Merck can then have the doctors speak about…
CDC sends live (not inactivated) Ebola to scientists…just like they did with anthrax and many other deadly bugs / NY Times
Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is investigating a laboratory mistake that has potentially exposed workers to the Ebola virus. From the NYT: A laboratory mistake at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, federal officials said on…